The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.

And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

One advances by standing on the shoulders of giants, but the ultimate goal is to find one's own vision.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

We go after unlawful activities.

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.