I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

My name is Catbug. What’s yours?

After all tomorrow is another day.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

As lyke as one pease is to another.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED