“The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.”

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”

“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.”

“Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.”

“Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.”

“Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”