The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.
Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.
I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.
True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.
You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.
I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.
Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.
Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.
I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.
It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.
I should warn you that underneath these clothes I'm wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.
It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.
I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.
Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.
I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.
..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?
Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.