“you are responsible for you own happiness”

“A good man is called a man by his works”

“Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may—until that time comes, I have the right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I'm sure you won't do him more harm than you'll do the truth good. Or until I'm hauled before somebody that can make me talk.”

“My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.”

“One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is ever happy anywhere.”

“Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.”

“Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,any early morning talk about it.”