Good men do the most harm
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.
Health is the thing that makes you feel like that now is the best time of the year.
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
I grew up with British rock.
The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.