A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Flatter yourself critically.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Flattery works like a drug.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

Sometimes good is preventing us for being better".rbasequia..

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?"