"Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it."

"Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do."

"If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question."

"About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America."

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

"The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it."

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with."

"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!"

"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."

"In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras."

"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."