The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

The moment you're born you're done for.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.