That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

Only a fool believes that his actions don't shape the world.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns a lesson he can learn in no other way.

My word is iron, " Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.