One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.