A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.