Gertrude Stein

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.