To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Poetry is more than just art, it’s like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

You hand over control, you start winning.

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

A small waist makes you tire easily.

Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.