My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

Never compromise your values.

For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!'

I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.

I was never part of the crowd.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.