Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Parody is homage gone sour.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work.

By swap news do you mean drink?" "I do, and that excessively.

You trusted me to do things that terrify you because it's what I needed. I can do the same for you. I can hold you. I can let you in.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I am convinced that we all have the decision to act on a daily basis.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.