Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.

You're only as good as your last record.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.