Quote #24068
One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
Quote #5643
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost...
Quote #6066
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Quote #14805
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that...
Quote #22261
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Quote #24854
Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is...
Quote #16286
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Quote #27413
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Quote #18880
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely...
Quote #154
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.