People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past to die

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?