Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

The more intelligent, the less sane

Mad About You fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people...

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.