The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.