You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.

He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him.

Wait patiently for what you want.

What if happiness is a choice?

The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.