Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
Fashion changes, but style endures.