Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.