There is much Obi-Wan did not tell you.

The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends without any means.

When in doubt, use brute force.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Go ahead... make my day.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but *not* its mineral rights.

Maryel brought her bat into Exit once and started whacking people on the dance floor. Now everyone's doing it. It's called grand slam dancing.

We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *___and* fresher

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

Don't get mad, get even.

It is not enough that I should succeed. Others must fail.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

A man's house is his castle.

The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

"Somewhere", said Father Vittorini, "did Blake not speak of the Machineries of Joy? That is, did not God promote environments, then intimidate these Natures by provoking the existence of flesh, toy men and women, such as are we all? And thus happi

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought, and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon to be created." "This is true," He replied.

What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?

I don't have any use for bodyguards, but I do have a specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Too much of everything is just enough.

If you are shooting under 80 you are neglecting your business; over 80 you are neglecting your golf.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Ask not for whom the Bell tolls, and you will pay only the station-to-station rate.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

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Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high, they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.

The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.

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

If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Whatever doesn't succeed in two months and a half in California will never succeed.

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

If you know the answer to a question, don't ask.

The ripest fruit falls first.

It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.

"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest."

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

(1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. (2) If your stomach antagonizes you, pacify it with cool thoughts. (3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. (4) Go very lightly on the vices, such as carrying on in society, as

Everyone is in the best seat.

Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice that lots of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eatin' well.

We're only in it for the volume.

Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?

There is no fool to the old fool.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

The future is a race between education and catastrophe.

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his

Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Home is where the hurt is.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The Israelis are the Doberman pinschers of the Middle East. They treat the Arabs like postmen.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never

Pauca sed matura. [Few but excellent.]

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness th

After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.