If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

News is history shot on the wing.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.

It Is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal ones being clever.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia's goal in Syria is simply the maintenance of its longtime ally President Bashar al-Assad in power. Indeed, Moscow has hitherto shown little appetite to focus on ISIS.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

We get in the grip of doubt and straightway we turn from the fellowship of those who know the Lord to the fellowship of those who confessedly do not know Him.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

I try to avoid political ties.

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

Adapt yourself to the needs of the people.

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.

Anthony Davis is cool.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

My stories are often a little mysterious.