He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine

William Shakespeare

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

Michael Patrick King

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

Warren Christopher

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

Sebastian Junger

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kin Hubbard

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George M. Adams

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

I love going out and doing new things.

Bo Jackson

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains and synapses are being rebuilt and rewired with maddening disregard for our personalities, so that each year, each month, each day, we transfer into a different person, an utterly unfaithful iteration of our original selves, of the drooling kid in the sandbox. But not me. I am still a facsimile of my early childhood. I am still looking for a loving dad to lift me up and brush the sand off my ass and to hear English, calm and hurtless, fall off his lips.

Gary Shteyngart