I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.