At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Flatter yourself critically.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Flattery works like a drug.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

There's always time for tea.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

My mantra is always, "Take a nap first, Matt! Then think." It's silly, but it works.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

I tend to leave the house without makeup all the time. I'm kind of lazy that way.