Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

John Andrew Holmes

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Edward Dahlberg

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

H. L. Mencken

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Keanu Reeves

To that high Capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner