Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Nothing is black or white.