Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.