The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL!

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

Don't get seduced by the next shiny thing, because you'll get caught up chasing shiny things and that will keep you from addressing what you really need to accomplish.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

Hesitation will get you killed.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.