The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

I MUST BE A TIME TRAVELLER BECAUSEI AM ALWAYS AHEAD OF MY TIME

There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.

It's been nice knowing you, Clara.'Huh? My brain still a bit shell-shocked.'Say a prayer for me, will you? He gives me a shaky grin. Because I'm pretty sure my parents are going to kill me

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.