For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

I believe people change and life tends them to.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

Money can't buy happiness. Or put my family back together.

I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

The New Heaven and New Earth are like a double Millennium, Millennium for ever!-Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Heaven that's never done!

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I'm perceived. You'll go crazy otherwise.

There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers.