What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.