I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

Oh. My. God.’ she said, pointing out of the window. ‘Do you know what that is?’I nodded and said, ‘I think I may have seen it before.’‘That, ’ said Florida, ‘is the Moonyouidiot.

Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?

I think I speak for everyone, " he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.