You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

I would ask that people judge us, judge me, based on our record, based on what we actually did.

Caffeine restricts blood flow to the brain.

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!

My kids were completely out of control, while I was working fifteen hours a day plus weekends. I screamed a lot, something I'm not particularly proud of, but it was that or firearms.