I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

What's the point of living if you don't feel alive?

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

No punching?" he asked."No.""No kicking?""No.""How about arm wrestling?""No. And before you ask, we've avoided Slug Bug, Slap Bets, and any and all Dance-Offs."Fate Succumbs

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.