What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.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

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.

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.

My heart faint not. The Lord will strengthen my spirit.

The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.

The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

I was going to strive at something that I loved to do. And I didn't care what the outcome was; I wanted it to be something successful, I wanted to move forward.