No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

the taste of death does not comes from the recipe of cowardness

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

You ought to learn as best as you can.

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

You kill, it's part of your world as a bullfighter, it's a natural part of your world, and then you leave that world and it becomes unnatural.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.