Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky.

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously.

If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long.

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.