“I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.”
“Sometimes little is better than nothing at all.”
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”
“Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.”
“No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.”