Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.