The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers.

It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Stop the blame game

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

There's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Great work is always shunned at first.