Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.