Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.