"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."
"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it."