In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Ah, what an awe great God!

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Well, who’s real? The living or the dead?

It's probably been the worst three months of my life.