The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.