The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.

Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.