My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Quite definitely a Bingley

No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.