"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint."

"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."

"I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking."

"My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles."

"This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest."

"It is a timeless truth that he who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel — an essential principle for the reflective life."