it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

I only need 1 thing: Everything" - Sengoku Nadeko

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.