The past is a funeral gone by.

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

If money controls our life, the devil will come into our life also to control that.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can’t quit.

I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'