I do believe in shooting the messenger.You know why? Because it sends a message.

I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.

The clearer the objective, the better the performance.

After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.

Hospital life--with its byzantine array of moving parts layered atop the unpredictable rhythms of illness--is a permanent state of flux.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

To think someone can go out and sell something about you is really disgusting. I'm much more careful now.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.