"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."

“If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world.”

“I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.”

“I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security.”

Source : "U.S. agency says doubt on port sale is resolved" by Carl Hulse, David E. Sanger, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2006.

“Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.”

“Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.”

Source : Larry Rivers, Marlborough Gallery (2005). “Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings: 1951-2001 ; May 3-June 4, 2005”, Marlborough Gallery

“I feel like Elvis. Only alive.”

“[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.”

“I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.”