To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Define yourself

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.