I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.