Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

There's no doubt in my mind that he wants this and that he loves you, Sam, but sometimes even the strongest feelings in our hearts can't silence the demons in our head.

Today is elections day and I am stepping out to help write a chapter that will form a part of my unborn children's history exam in the future.

Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.