This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.