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.

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

Thinking is harder work than hard work.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

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.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.