When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.