Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

But Jack doesn'

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.