There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. ‘I don’t want to talk about it any longer.

If they ever turn, let them chase me for a while. It’s always been afantasy of mine to be chased by zombie cheerleaders.

The end of the world begins the moment you die.

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.