Women alone always order sole. It means something.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

I say, flawless poems do not exist.

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.