I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

Teach yourself to thankfully receive all that God gives you as evidence of His love and faithfulness, and then you'll find it easier to trust Him next time.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Don't tell people how good you make the goods; tell the how good your goods make them.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.