The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.