“By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.”

“Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.”

“When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.”

“It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”

“I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more.”

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

“All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.”

“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”