In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

If people like you, they'll give you a hand. But if they trust you, they'll give you their heart. And heart to heart, we can face anything together.

Neutrality has its own aesthetics.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.