Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Flatter yourself critically.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Flattery works like a drug.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.