I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.