Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

History is full of surprises.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.