Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.

It's kind of hard to outlive your past

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.