PandemicSoul Quotelog

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

“The Silver Poppy”

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ’safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.