Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.