Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

Peter Jennings

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Claiborne Pell

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

Michael Koryta

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

John Wooden

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Bill Vaughan

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Laurence J. Peter

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Robert Morgan

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

David Ogilvy

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Voltaire

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s--t we don't need.

Tyler Durden

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham