...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.