Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Parody is homage gone sour.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.

Never give up on your dreams for someone else.'Cos Someday they might leave you but your dreams won't.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

I drink juice when I'm killin' cause it's f**king delicious!

I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.