If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

A good beginning is of great importance.

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.