All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.

There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

My wife's so dumb, she got a nail in the spare!!

In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.