In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Thoughts are more alive than you are. Without thoughts, are you there?

There is beauty in the soul of every man.

Inventors do not invent for financial gain, they invent simply because they love to invent

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

I realized that when two people function well together at work, it doesn't matter if they hadn't seen each other for years. What they had before was still intact.

Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.