The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.