Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.

I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.