Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.