[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.