“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a d...”

“I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.”

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”

“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”

“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”