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.

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.

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.