They have a way of rising from the ashes,” said Andreus.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good,” the Golux said, “by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came...

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

At least she’s not guilty of integrity, and that’s more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing...

…I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

The jewels of sorrow last forever

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

You mere device,” he gnarled. “You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don’t think clearly–too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of...

You have made the moon,” The Jester said. “That is the moon.

Taking a single letter from the alphaber,” he said, “should make life simpler.””I don’t see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It’s adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler....

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.