Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.