Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

You must believe in yourself, otherwise we are all lost to darkness

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

Good design should be honest.

The best side drew (after a hard fought 1-1 draw)

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

Believe and you're halfway there.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

History works itself out in the living.

Yeah, "Wacko Jacko". Where'd that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings, I feel that, when you do that to me. It's not nice.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.