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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

Being on set with my dad – that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid – when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

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