There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.

So many things I had thought forgottenReturn to my mind with stranger pain:Like letters that arrive addressed to someoneWho left the house so many years ago.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

She leaned toward me, offering her neck, and I kissed her just behind her ear.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.