Arrogance wasn’t the same thing as stupidity, but it tended to have similar results.

I’ve decided that it’s better to be alive until it’s time to be buried.

I sat in on a late-night party once in which the subject of friendship came up, and I listened in dumbstruck incredulity as one man explained that his friends had to like the same things he did – that they must not only read the same books and magazines he did, and listen to the same music, but pretty much share his opinions of all those things. He.

People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn’t agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of ‘the universe’ in this regard.

Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.

At that point I made all of them shut up while I explained that a friend is someone who will give you a drink from his canteen and watch while you sleep.

If that meant Adele was lying to a politician, it was merely a pleasant reversal of roles.

It wasn’t that they had different principles; rather, their principles were of such different sorts that neither one could recognize that the other even had principles.

As my Uncle Theodosius always said: never chase women who are a lot smarter than you. You won’t catch them, or, what’s worse, you might.

Logic wasn’t the governing factor here. It rarely is in human affairs.