Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

In the present, every day is a miracle.

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

In the present every day is a miracle.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make a difference!

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.