The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

We're translating the Kama Sutra," Barrons said, with interactive aids.

First you bring the sugar, then you bring the hot sauce.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.