Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

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