Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

Wife: a former girlfriend

To make or not to make a choice is still considered you made a choice as it was choice to choose or not to choose to make a choice.

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

I like the rule that corrects emotion.

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.