MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Life is so much richer, so very much more meaningful, if you plant yourself in a place that will nourish you.

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.

Nobody knows what the future is, except for wizards.

Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders.

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.