The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded, but linger on as thwarted possibilities an compelling nostalgias.

his parabatai rune was bleeding

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I'm a kind of private guy.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Come near me and I'll rip your wings off and beat you with them.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.