Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

I am a creature of chemicals.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.