A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
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