People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

If you have a lair then you are probably not a good person.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.