Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death

No vice is so bad as advice.

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.