I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a 'how to' for achieving success. You have to build either of them one brick at a time.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

I'll help out in ways to inspire others and ways to get people together and bring about things to help people financially.

My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.