God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.