I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.