The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Despatch is the soul of business.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.