When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
A wanton waste of projectiles.
I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.