Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.