I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.