The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.