Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.