Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops..

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say..

You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all….

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him..

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war..

It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To ….

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways..

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes..

... life, by definition, is never still..

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that….

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did..

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs..

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits f….

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass..

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of….

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books..

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing..

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind..