You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

There is an original inside me.