I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

You need to live a productive life

The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master.

I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

Do you mind if I don't smoke?

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

I do believe deeply in perfection. I'm never satisfied.

Within the problem lies the solution

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.