He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

When you make the connection between your choices and your experiences, you do not have to create the same experiences again.

I know that truly nothing is for sure.

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father) Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)