People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

Cynicism is the humor of hatred.

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

I'll have that one, please.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.

People generally despise where they flatter.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

I don't consider genre while writing.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Content marketing is more than a buzzword. It is the hottest trend in marketing because it is the biggest gap between what buyers want and brands produce.

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.