Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.

This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one’s causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.

Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.