“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”

“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.”

“Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”

“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.”

“If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.”

“Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do — creating.”