No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.

I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self

The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.

He took a few steps before responding. "You are special," he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder if he wanted to add something else.

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.