I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

There are endearing people who come into our lives and leave a soul print.

A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.