Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.