It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.