I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail, ' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

You don't write. You get out of the way.

I know, it's amazing to people that we have a political system, but we do.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.