Memory is the thing you forget with.

To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmill to which the rest of us feel chained incites our envy, and therefore our fury. We do not suffer him to go unpunished.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Life is fleeting-and therefore endurable.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it-whether it be a factory or a government.

The movie actor, like the sacred king of primitive tribes, is a god in captivity.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

In a democracy the general good is furthered only when the special interests of competing minorities accidentally coincide-or cancel each other out.