Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

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.

What you think to be a tragedy id God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

First love is Best Love!! <3

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

I used to think that diamonds were a girl's best friend, but now I realize it's carbohydrates. Seriously, I have a French baguette at home sporting a matching friendship bracelet.

I am very suspicious of people.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.