The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.
Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.
I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.
The world invited me many places.
Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.
I wasn't a child at 13, were you?
I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Positive thoughts precede positive results.
Many more schools can be outstanding.
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
There is so much freedom in not having to choose.
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
