I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Shake and shake the catsup bottle none will come and then a lot'll.

If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

Big skirmishes over small misunderstanding make things bad in a relationship.

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.