One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

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.

To Be Happy, You Must Know The Pass Code of Life. And Life Gives You Many Attempts To Unlock It....

It’s true: A slice of pound cake does wonders to thaw the coldest of days.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

I'm one of those guys like whatever the situation is, as long as people are cool and everybody is trying to be funny, I have a good time.

I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.