You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.