The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.