The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

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.

Just shut up and talk. - Shella

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.

poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

No matter how dark your night, my friend, may you always find enough light to take the next step.

I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.

If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.