"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."

"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

"Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships."

"And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"

"Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle."

"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance."