I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.