Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.