All the waters of the earth are in the armpit of the Great Frog.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air.

... we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan. Never odd or even. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. Madam, I'm Adam. Sit on a potato pan, Otis. Sit on Otis.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.