Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Stories are equipment for living.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

My own business always bores me to death

When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed.

You're playing hookey for her? You met her, what, five minutes ago? And now she's what? Your girlfriend? Did you give her your varsity jacket?

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

We are capitalism made flesh.

The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.

The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee.