The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.