What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.