Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.