On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

Business is the most exciting game.

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls