Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

There is no humor in heaven.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.