Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.

Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.