The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

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.

Such is the nature of people: they regret that what was, although it wasn't even nice, because they are afraid of what will be – the unknown.

Chuck Norris’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground.

If we don't dream of the possible, the possible never happens.

The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.

Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place

You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.