Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper

An unknown cause is not the same as divine intervention.

Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.

Vices are their own punishment

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful

So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.

Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.