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

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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.

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

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

The future ain't what it used to be.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.