I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.