Genius is among other minds what the carbuncle is among gemstones

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

Your patience will be rewarded.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.

All that we know is nothing can be known.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.