Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.

Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

Create your own constituency of the infuriated.