You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.

A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

Just FYI, in your case, I think it’s okay to fear the reaper.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.