To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The human race is its own rain and its own sun. It creates its own cyclones and anti-cyclones. The ridges of high pressure which we sometimes enjoy, the troughs of low pressure which we so often endure, are of our own making and nobody else's.

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.

When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.