That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

But it's up to us...' he said softly. 'it's up to us not to lose this.

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.