Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

On Christmas morning when I was a child, my mother would leave a book wrapped at the foot of the bed, which was a hint that Santa had come. It was also her way of keeping us in bed a little longer before we went downstairs. So I've always associated books with happiness and gifts. And they are. I can't get enough of them.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.