To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.