Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.