I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.