“Clichés so often befall vain people.”

“Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.”

“Yesterday's deconstructions are often tomorrow's orthodox clichés.”

“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.”

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”

“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.”