There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

A good liar must have a good memory.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.