I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones—by faith alone. It strikes me a...
I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attention. They can’t. No matter how hard they try parts of their minds are on something else. Missing the last...
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.
It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren’t competent to have an opinion about it.
In the course of nearly a century of gusty living he had been broke many times, had several times been wealthier than he now was; he regarded both conditions as he did shifts in the weather, and never...
If you’re not too busy this evening, why don’t you bring your soft shoes and your pads over to officers’ row and we’ll go waltzing Matilda? Say about eight o’clock. Yes, sir. That’s not an order, that...
If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn’t
If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn’t hire a proxy who may bungle it.
If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.
If I choose to dine with publicans and sinners, that is my business. But I do not choose to break bread with Pharisees.
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because its the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.But find me something that makes you laugh, a joke, anything--but something that...
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting...But that's not all people laugh at.Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all...
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
I was thinking that it was regrettable that your tastes have grown canalized so young. There itwas, raining soup-and you were caught without a spoon. Even three days of what you wereoffered-urged on y...
I wanted us to get out of production. Jake Schmidt, our production shop master, was a good man; nevertheless I was forever being jerked out of a warm creative fog to straighten out bugs in production—...
I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites.
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.