Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.

Be happy for what you have.

As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.