If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Never economize on luxuries.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.

Lets make a change today while everybody takes a day off and waits to make a change tomorrow.

Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.

Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.

If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.