To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.