In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-

Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.

A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

Your lover should be your best friend.... Love can be a choice as much as an accident.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.