Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Passion is a Horse Given to Us to Discipline.

The "C" students run the world.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.

In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.