To be truly elegant one should not be noticed

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.

Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless.

The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love.

Who's your fat friend ?

Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.

Shut the door, Wales.

People don’t mind Christianity until you show any sign of actually believing in it

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you?

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.