What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

But facts, remembered or not, are all, alas, still facts

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.