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.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.