When in trouble, mumble.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

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

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.