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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, 'as pretty as an airport.' Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends—they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.

When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important will be illegible.

To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

[I]nstead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey[.] - From The Importance of Living (1937)

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -- because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? .....................................

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. (on her and her husband's book "The Lessons of History")

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. (talking about Henry James)