If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.