Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.

Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

Reality is perceptual misinterpretation. To change reality, change your perception.

Only hard work will make you prosper

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.