Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.