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

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?

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'.

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.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with his laserbeam eyes and hideous poisonous-gas breath. Glory!

I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!