You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It's always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you're in jockey shorts. Yeah.

I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.