A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee.

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

Paranoia," Sam muttered. "You're going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you're talking to yourself.

The 'how's' are the domain of the universe. It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.