It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

Loneliness is like a big, empty room inside you that echoes with the sounds of the life you're not living.

You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly. "Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him. "Really?" "god no. That was terrible

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

You are one seriously testy Creature of the Night. (Amanda)