He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

Wealth can only be multiplied through work

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

Television is a vast wasteland.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.

The element of fashion I'd like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it's not so much about the clothes.