The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!