Boards don't hit back.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Genius is sorrow's child.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.