Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good.

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.