I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

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.

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.