I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.