"A good and wholesome thing is a..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.”

“While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.”

“With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.”

“When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.”

“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”

“Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend”

“Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.”