Parody is homage gone sour.

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

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.

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

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.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

Some activities may look attractive, but you don’t have any business dating them, else they break you up. It may be good, but not right. Flee from good things and do right things!

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

You write in order to change the world.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

I think I was shy as a young woman and realized that photography was an ideal way of expressing myself, of telling people what was going on without having to talk.

Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.