Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.