They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.