If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.