Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.