In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.