"If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."

“Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.”

“To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!”

“Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.”

“Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.”

Source : Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.6, Gottfried & Fritz

“I get sidetracked very easily.”

“I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.”

“My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.