All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

Death should take more care with his paperwork.

He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Don't Settle for Mediocrity. Strive for Excellence

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Talkers expand like bread dough.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.