Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.