Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

Déjà vu is simply remembrance of the future.

I'd love to be a writer one day

They come with cold bones in heavy boots. See how they tremble. The folly of man . . .

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".