I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.