The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.