Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Sometimes quoted as newspapers.)

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the g…

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country…

About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberan…