It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.