It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Noise: a stench in the ear.

You're never gonna find the perfect politician.

Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.