I do make a conscious effort to bring energy every day. Have fun, keep stuff light, all of that stuff.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!

Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

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.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.