“Humankind cannot stand very much reality.”

“We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”

“That’s the trouble with a politician’s life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.”

“The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”

“There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.”

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

“In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.”

“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.”

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.”