Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.