Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.