A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

Don’t mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

I love comedians. They're my community.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.