When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

I guess love laughs at history a little.

You can save hundred words with just one look!

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.