The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos

Freedom is to forgive one another for perceived wrongdoing

I know a lot of stuff... but what I will say is that you know very small for what's really on the deep web.

How to partner with the power of the cosmos to fulfill your destiny

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

It's so easy to get caught up in doing and achieving that we often neglect to make time to be with the people we care about most.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations