Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked."It only works on wild animals.""So it would only affect Percy, " Annabeth reasoned."Hey!" I protested.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.

I'm probably better than I ever was in my career, as far as the mental aspect of the game.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.