I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.