How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

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.

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.