It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.