Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

To be fearlessly vulnerable with someone…One of the deepest, most desirable paradoxes of love.

Knowledge is the best economy we can have.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.