I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Can I just say that dying sucks? All that bullshit about seeing the light and having this inner peace, blah, blah, blah. It's crap.

I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.

Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.

The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.