Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

That is why they have poets—to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.