Bad Humor Is An Evasion Of Reality;

When You Reach Your Sixties, You Have To Decide Whether You're Going To Be A Sot Or An Ascetic. In Other Words If You Want To Go On Working After You're Sixty, Some Degree Of Asceticism Is Inevitable.

I Never Met A Rich Man Who Was Happy, But I Have Only Very Occasionally Met A Poor Man Who Did Not Want To Become A Rich Man.

I Doubt Whether The Revolution Has, In Essentials, Changed Russia At All. Reading Gogol, Or Dostoevsky For That Matter, One Realizes How Completely The Soviet Regime Has Fallen Back On To, And Perhaps Invigorated, The Old Russia. Certainly There Is Much More Of Gogol And Dostoievsky In The Regime Than There Is Of Marx.

The Only Thing That Really Teaches One What Life's About The Joy Of Understanding, The Joy Of Coming In Contact With What Life Really Signifies - Is Suffering, Affliction.

It Is Simply That America Is Very Rich And Very Powerful And Generally Speaking Everybody Hates The Rich And The Powerful.