What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.

Power's twin is responsibility.

From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced.

Pain is a new room in your house.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.