A library is a room where the murders take place.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control."For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"

Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the system. Let's invest more."

The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity