Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

Especially females and the younger ones like to be with somebody who is wise.

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.

Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand. "Nice teamwork," Edward murmured.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.