I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore Im always pleasantly surprised.

The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.

Can you envision a world without men? No wrongdoing and bunches of euphoric, fat women.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.