Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases: "Let our thoughts be correct".

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

I've got a very bad feeling about this.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Many of the characters are fools and they are always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Haste makes waste.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Art is Nature speeded up and God slowed down.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. Such an object is inevitably price

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

The first rule of all intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts.

Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?