In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.

The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.