To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

Canada: A few acres of snow.