I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Life tries and succeeds in stopping you with its horrible ways during your happy times

I'm a misunderstood genius.

I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

It's how you live that really counts

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.