They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.