Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

Author: H. L. Mencken

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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

We can't be brave without fear.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.