Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

When Life gives you a 100 reasons to Cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to Smile

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.

Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.