Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

When mice run, cats give chase.

Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today.

And she is remembering the words I put in her head...."You is kind, " she say, "you is smart. You is important.

There are things in the universe that are simply and purely evil. A warrior does not seek to understand them, or compromise with them. He seeks only to obliterate them

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house.