You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

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

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?