Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.