Dignity in a man may be more beautiful than a pretty face, but no one will ever respect his daughters.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Robertson Davies

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

William Faulkner

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may

Charles Dickens

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Leo Rosten

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Mark Haddon

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplier

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

Harry Dean Stanton

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

Jason Mraz

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Michel Foucault