Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I’d like to know why he shouldn’t come in and look around.

You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

I wonder why the vast majority of humanity fears the truth and the unknown.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

People overthink flowers. They are afraid to mix and match, so they don't do anything!

God plans all perfect combinations.

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

It's flattering that people want to know so much about me and want to take the time to make up that many things about me.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?