It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.