There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Never economize on luxuries.

First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.

You are the best book you could ever write phi

To live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.