The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.
If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.
