If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

They just want to control the population through fear and manipulation

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

Asteros's Motto: "Most experience comes from bad judgement.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.