The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Every man's memory is his private literature.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.