Honesty's the best policy.

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

All sorrows are less with bread.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Life after 35 should be lit by the flames of passion. Extinguish the fire that burns the candle of your life at both ends.

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.