With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.