The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

I really didn't think about song writing.

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

One of the perks of being a New Yorker cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.

I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.