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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book? I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
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And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.
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Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
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I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explinations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
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