He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open.

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not c

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold.

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plots are like girdles. Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain an uncontainable experience.