I just know I want to be an example of what I believe in. I want to influence people. People that are young.

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.

It makes the idea of in sickness and in health that much more real to see it play out in front of you.

One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.

And since a more convincing argument could not be found—aside from a fatal accident or suicide—this way was chosen: a process of galloping senescence.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.

The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.