I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.