We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Travel is the treasure of time.

...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.