Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

I really like to put my name on everything, so my roommate doesn't steal it. It's really a throwback to that.

'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times