The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.