The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

I don’t do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs.

When you give, give without any expectations.

See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

I'm constantly changing and evolving so I don't abide by just one certain style. I like to look at my personal style as an extension of my mood.

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.