People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.