Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life'; banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Don't be fooled by those with some smarts in mockery. Some are forced into wit because they're always wrong.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.