Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

I want to see you happy. I want you to live in the moment and smile spontaneously. Your entire face lights up. It’s beautiful.

We have hands

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

Generosity should never exceed ability.

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.