Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

Well, it just figures, " Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom.

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.