The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

I was a fool for love, I was a fool.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.

Starbuck's is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck's price.

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.

The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.

If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.