Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.