We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.