When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

A lot of shows start at one place, and then each episode is like a new little circle, often getting smaller.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.