You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

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.

I ran outta tears of sadness when I was 20 & all I got left is tears of joy.

Believe in yourself. Determine to pursue your goals.

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Let's all just follow the lead of Glamour, and join forces and lift each other up.

I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

Traveling really inspires me, seeing other cities and going on tour. If you've got fans online, it's hard to remember those people are real people.