A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.
The world is a penal institution.
An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.
I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.