Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.