If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.