"I prefer black music in general."

“There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.”

“I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.”

Source : The Enjoyment of Laughter pt. 3, ch. 4 (1935)

“I'm a foodie, I'm always eating, I'm eating right now ...sometimes I get fat around the waist, but I don't care.”

“He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.”

Source : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1840). “Georgia scenes: characters, incidents, in the first half century of the republic”, p.24

“CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.”

“Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

“My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.”

“I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.”