I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.