I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

History! Read it and weep!

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.