Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.

There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.