Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

No work you'll ever complete

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

I was my own buddy in camp.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.