I say ‘art’ advisedly, for art is undefined, undefinable, and without limits. I can use the word without fear of misusing it, for it has no exact meaning. There are as many meanings as there are artis...
I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.
I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it’s not his choice.
I never do anything I don’t want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
Hendrick, I have explained these matters to you because it is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished.
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables;
Good! the creature echoed. Doctor Nelson will be along in a minute. Feel like some breakfast? All four symbols in the query were in Smith’s vocabulary but he had trouble believing that he had heard th...
Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law.They are? Only from on top.
Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.
Death isn't funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the p...
But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday—at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself—or perhaps to a man from Mars.
But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don’t plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people.
But it’s a hell of a note when you can’t even kill a dragon and feel lighthearted afterwards.
Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.
Any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.
Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.