To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to

It's like you're a mirror and you show me who I want to be, instead of who I am.

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

The suns going down and we cant afford to come back to it tomorrow.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?