We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Give up trying to make me give up
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
