Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

When I am old I shall wear midnight.

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .