A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О Время, ты от разлуки!]- Vladislav Khalyavkin, The Operator

Art is a passion or it is nothing

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Somebody was using the pencil.

You are not in business to be popular.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.