You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

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

Give up trying to make me give up

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.