The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

To vanish with the infinite, I am floating with the waves of change in the ocean of time.

I am passionate about life.

There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.