The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.