It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

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.

When God holds the Crayons you can expect a masterpiece.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

True change happens within not without

You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow.