I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

My ultimate goal is to play in the Masters.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.

You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.