It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.