Purity of heart is to will one thing.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.