You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Outer beauty is transient, but the inner beauty of a kind heart gets brighter with time. Be kind and get prettier forever.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.

I think that the way that Steve Jobs sought after love was to create products that people loved. And when people loved his products, in turn they - he felt like they loved him.

Folks always look good in their coffins.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

Always behold not only your own smile but also the smile of someone else's joy

I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.