I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.

It’s a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken. He had the impression that the whole view had turned into eyes that reproached him.

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.

My thoughts are limitless. Social conditioning creates the limits. I like to overtake those and like to go where my thoughts take me.

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

Your smile draws people to you as it simultaneously brings out the best in you both.

He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

Take 30 seconds to encourage everyone you meet today. Everyone. Be genuine and transparent. And do it. Then do it tomorrow. Repeat.

Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.

Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison.