The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY! Bindy: Watch me.

Don't live only in your head. It's lonely and it's dangerous.

Justice has long arm.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.