Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

A one-word book does appeal to me.

They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.