Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.