Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

Singing diminishes sorrow.

God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful.

At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of clownish journalists has the longevity of a mouldering mushroom.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.