If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

Be an example, not an adviser.

Thou shalt not stand idly by

This strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry its divided aims.

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.