The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.