Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

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