The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.