Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Marcel Proust

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Jerry Hall

The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.

Robert Benchley

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Johann von Goethe

Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

William Shakespeare

Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.

Foster M. Russell

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby, The Colby Ess

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

George Orwell

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Thomas Moffett

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

Donna Rice

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

H. L. Mencken