A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

My job is to express who I am and what I hate about the country and what I love about it and what I hate about myself and what I love about myself and to make you laugh while I'm doing it.