Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.