What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

A field of glory is a field for all.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for.