The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.