Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

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

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

We in middle age require adventure.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.