Man cannot live by profit alone.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.