There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

[Home educator] sometimes teaching and parenting is tough stuff. That is the reality of the calling. I hope ... [do] not quit or give up hope but keep moving forward on the path where God guides you.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.