All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.