“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.”

“But youre out of another world old kid You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.”

“[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of greyWhat Id seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hol...”

“I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed....”

“Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights.”

“And you know once a man has fished, or watched the thrushes hovering in flocks over the village in the bright, cool, autumn days, he can never really be a townsman, and to the day of his death he w...”

“The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear someone say that all the people that belong to a certain country, race, or religion ...”