You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Never mistake motive for action.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.