Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.