But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

The best of a bad bargain.

2. A heart broken by a girl can be repaired by another girl only.

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.