There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

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.