I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and som….

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go aw….

"Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And ….

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us..

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year..

The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingl….

Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will….

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together..

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die..

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking ….

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera..

Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Becaus….

I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and compli….

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature..

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way.

Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are….

One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than ….

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop..

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars..

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon a….