If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.