“Only fools are positive.”
“Brass bands are all very well in their place – outdoors and several miles away.”
“If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.”
“The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.”
“Most people ignore most poetry / because / most poetry ignores most people.”
“I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
“All the world’s a cage.”
“I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.”
“Hello seeker! Now don’t feel alone here in the New Age, because there’s a seeker born every minute.”
“There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.”
“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”
“You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.”
“Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to …
“The computing field is always in need of new cliches.”
“It takes a planet to explore the universe.”
“Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.”
“‘So you think *I’m* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I’m not, be the next victim?’/ ‘Well, that would …
“If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee — that will do them in.”
“The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.”
“The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.”
“Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.”
“Mustard’s no good without roast beef.”
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than …
“It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.”
“Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t.”
“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits …
“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.”
“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
“For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.”
“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.”
“An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.”
“1. Never tell everything at once.”
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
“Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.”
“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.”
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
“If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport.”