I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like me….

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different..

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order.".

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things..

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled..

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant ….

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me….

You have to go, but I have to stay..

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love..

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literatur….

One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what ….

No moral value is greater than humanity..

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time..

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed..

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead..

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind..

If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are g….

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at….

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has ….

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful..

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him….