The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.

Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.

Whatever you can dream and believe, you can achieve.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.