Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.