Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

If you wanna fly high with me you have to play blind on me !!

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

Money is not the perfect source of satisfaction. This source is God.

Tiresome heart, forever living and dying, House without air, I leave you and lock your door. Wild swans, come over the town, come over The town again, trailing your legs and crying!

Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.