I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.
The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.
I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very slowly for pretty good money. So the idea of writing really quickly for free offends me.