Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

I don't sell cosmetics, I sell hope.

He sighed heavily. "Girls are mean. At least faeries simply kill you if they don't want you around." He put a hand on the wall, leaning against it and tapping his foot impatiently.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.