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If you are stupid enough to dine with the devil, for Christ's sake use a long spoon.

To the success of our hopeless cause

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.

When people ask me if I have worked for the C.I.A., I often answer: what good to you is my answer? Because if I did, I might not say so.

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

Life is short," I told her. "The challenge is to make it sweet.

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

Should you start with a hypothesis and analyze data in a way that supported it, or start with the data and sift through it for a useful hypothesis?

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.