When in trouble, mumble.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.