It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

The only way you would have failed, " she said, "is if you had.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind.

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

I've led a very eclectic life.

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

I was determined to know beans.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.