that voice was a deathless song.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.