Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.