The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.