From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

It takes two to make an accident.