Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

Knowledge is curiosity to know more.

I won't be Cheeky and hypocritical... I will be real or nothing!

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

I think what my father is saying is I want a fair election. I want a fair election.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.