An artist must be a reactionary

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.