Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

Justice is paramount. The new judgement is the justice of the hidden time.

A little house well filled a little land well tilled and a little wife well willed are great riches.

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for