Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

America is not the center of the universe.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Everything I publish is for my readers.