At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Memory... is an internal rumour.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.