“Let's have some new cliches.”

“A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.”

“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”

“Please write music like Wagner, only louder.”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”

“Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.”

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”