He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse.

If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.