Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Love is someone you can be silly with

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

In the end, climate change is a math problem.

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Once you realise there's nothing to be afraid of when you die, there's nothing else to worry about.

This is a software-powered world.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.