Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

but you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.

Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

An atheist's response to a creationist asking 'what if' there was a God, That would be quite an unsettling thought.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Alcohol is good for killing microbes. It does mean that it also kills macrobes (human).

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

The Wombat is a Joy, a Triumph, a Delight, a Madness!

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.