Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

but you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.

Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

I couldn't care less about politically correct.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.