I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.