Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.