Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".