Life's more amusing than we thought.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.

Time limps when you are not having fun.

You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products.

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.

Everything is exciting. Who knows what will happen next?