Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.