I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!