Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.