The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.