Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on.

She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.

The Russian story's all an excuse for the Democrats losing. That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. We had no collusion with Russia. We never dealt with Russia.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Place the team above yourself always.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.