More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Euthanasia. . . is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.
John Clellon Holmes. . . and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.