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

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.

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.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

Be your own solace

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

If you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you.

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

We all look the same with our helmets on.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.