Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.