The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.