When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking. We're talking now about the earliest writing I did and about the power of language to counteract the wallow of late adolescence, to define things, define muddled experience in economical ways. Let's not forget that writing is convenient. It requires the simplest tools. A young writer sees that with words and sentences on a piece of paper that costs less than a penny he can place himself more clearly in the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.