My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

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

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.