The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.