I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Stars shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

The spirits of the dead are not among us to entertain us... Assuming the revenants you encounter have simply signed up to play haunted house for the amusement of the living is just plain ignorant.

F***ing triffids.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.