I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

People keep looking for the perfect one, but perfection is an attribute of God alone.

Poverty is irrelevant when there is proper time conversion.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Only the dead have no troubles.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.