If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.