School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I get confused with all the rules in golf. Let's say you're playing in L.A. and your ball lands on a dead body. Is your relief one or two club lengths?

The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.