Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Parody is homage gone sour.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you’ll be in all areas of life.

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.