For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

I am thankful and blessed to be in a position where I have learned as much from those that have taught me as I have from those that I continue to teach.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like 'Hey, I don’t see the problem here.

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.