The happy ending is our national belief.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.