I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. =
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.