Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

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.

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful.

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.