Don't give advice unless you're asked.
I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.
The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
I don't mind playing absolute bastards. . . I just don't want to play the grouch.
I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.
I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.
I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.
Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: "I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job. I want to be President. "