Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
A good liar must have a good memory.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
It ain't over 'til it's over.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
