Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.