I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.