I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.