The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

My spirit is simply rekindled with each one of your words.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.