We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Boards don't hit back.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Sunlight is painting.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.