Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.