Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.