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.

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.

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.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

Opportunities are all around you, you just need to be able to see them.