The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

I wanted you to have the best pears in New York and I wanted to be the man to buy them for you.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

I—I don’t drink, ” said Shina. The Captain clicked her tongue. “Well, I don’t know your life, ” she said, “but that might be part of your greater overall problem.

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

Depression is pain in its purest form.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.