I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

Innovative wisdom with purpose defines a leader.

When you fall for someone not even reason can help you up.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Let me tell you, if Hillary Clinton's president of the United States, nothing's going to happen. It's just going to be talk.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.