“Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”

“Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”

“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.”

“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”

“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”