An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.