Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.