May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.