The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.