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.

Everybody lies about sex.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

An armed society is a polite society.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.