The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.