Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.