Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
The future ain't what it used to be.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.