Come on, " he said. "Bring the poker."I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it.

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

What ho!" I said."What ho!" said Motty."What ho! What ho!""What ho! What ho! What ho!"After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all.

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.

The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

We are sons of God And must be even as he.