Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.