For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.

All of her mannerisms, even her way of sitting, are of a perfect femininity. Or: how to occupy the least possible amount of space in the world.

Irony alone is damning.The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.

An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds.

Be yourself to find the uniqueness of the universe.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

All films are born free and equal.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.