I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Dean Acheson

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Denis Waitley

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Hugh Walpole

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

Tallulah Bankhead

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

Christopher Hitchens

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

Ray Charles

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My mother, who hates thunderstorms,Holds up each summer day and shakesIt out suspiciously, lest swarmsOf grape-dark clouds are lurking there....

Philip Larkin

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Harold MacMillan