"The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed..." - Quote by George Sand

“To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.”

“[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!”

“Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.”

“The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.”

“This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.”

“my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens”

“Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.”

“I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.”

“Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.”