A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible...something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

But your perfectly good bed doesn’t come with a blanket of stars.

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.