Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.