“To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.”

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.

A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old.

An author never has a vacation. He’s a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he’s saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

And so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.

I used to sing on the school bus everyday.

Too many times, people don’t try their best. They don’t have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you’ve got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That’s why I don’t clown around.

Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can’t go home again; but that doesn’t mean you’re not free to try.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

You’re every single fantasy I’ve ever had.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.