I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.