The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.