I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams.
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.