The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

The bitter heart eats its owner.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.