I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.

Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.

In the meantime, I’ll get a job. I’ll pay my own way.” “A job?” “Mmm, yeah. It’s that thing people do to make money.

...ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.

Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things to do with their time.

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.

It's not what you do, it's what it means.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

Ah, tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers, Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret?

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.