Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.