And Castle nodded sagely. 'So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn't agree

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it’ll be her wings not her face that’ll make my mouth fall open. I’ve already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.

She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.