The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Ants are a curious race

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.