I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities.

Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

This is a place where the strong often victimize the weak.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

A big part of me just lets everything go.

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.