A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.