Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Deny God and you deny the world in which we all live.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.