The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.