There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.

Never look back; something is always gaining on you.

It's important to have a life outside the band.

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.