I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

I do give them to you, " he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.

Far too few have much too much, and way too many have much too little!

If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...