Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

I love to dance and dance all night long.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.