"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."

"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angles to San Francisco live there?"

"The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, it's there."

"All American cars are basically Chevrolets."

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."

"Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason."

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

"Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way."

"In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."