You must excuse my gruff conduct, ” the watchdog said, after they’d been driving for some time, “but you see it’s traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

I was put in this world to change it.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.

You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.