There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

I know that maniacal twinkle in your eye. You're up to something Gwen," he said.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?" "All right," he whispers.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good.