An exotic and irrational entertainment.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Gestalt means whole, and so are you.

The rest of us need you to act, because if you don't, you're robbing yourself, your peers, your family, your organization, and the world of a contribution that only you can make.

You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.