Archives - March 2010

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people
around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual
ignorance.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself
--- nature does it for you.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take
seriously.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems
afterwards.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions --- the
little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look
or heartfelt compliment.

There’s always one moment in childhood when the door opens
and lets the future in.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits
you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human
functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to
do it better.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone
asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing,
for life itself is a writer's lover until death --- fascinating,
cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Every spring is the only spring --- a perpetual astonishment.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's
accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's
failures.

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be
done.

I used to believe in forever…but forever was too good to be
true.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will
live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way
of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an
endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position,
rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to “jump at
de sun.” We might not land on the sun, but at least we would
get off the ground.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of
learning.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding
address.

All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas

Layin' In The Sun,

Talkin' 'Bout The Things

They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...

But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas

All Ran Away And Hid

From One Little Did.