The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.

God is well able to turn your tragedies into triumphs.

The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people’s hearts.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.