Respect People, Inspect Ideas.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?

One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.

I like to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit rock n' roll, other times more girly and feminine.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

Literature + Illness = Illness