Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Keep a spur handy.

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

Hell's a dry heat too. It still sucks. Let me know if you pull anything. I'm gonna go get a cold beer and pour it down my pants.

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.