When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.