Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

In the end, everything is a gag.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.