Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.