If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices.

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.