Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children.

Seek the blessings each day brings.

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.

I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.