When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.