If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to the conclusion that the nineteen million years was a preparation for him; but that would be just like an oyster, which is the most conceited animal there is, except man. And anyway, this one could not know, at that early date, that he was only an incident in a scheme, and that there was some more in the scheme yet.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.