Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.