Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic