Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.

There was, I found, always more to learn.

Be as thou wast wont to be.See as thou wast wont to see.

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.