He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

None of us are meant to be or do anything. We decide what we're going to be.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.