No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!