If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.