Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton.

Cycling is such an endurance sport. I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.