What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

The word good has many meanings.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.