The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.