Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

It's pretty dangerous if you approach music trying to please other people.

Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.

The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.