The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.