The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Disorder created connections──that is, resonance.

Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

'I don't know' is my favorite position.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.

No one gets left behind, remember?

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.