The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....

Impact does not obey hard work but principles.

Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God he will have his idols.

What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.