You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.