The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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.

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

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