No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.