Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.