In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an ex….

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience..

Faith is learned through life..

We don't choose what's going to wake us up..

Forgiveness frees the forgiver..

Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--a….

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you d….

You have to live a life to become a writer..

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls..

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point..

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong..

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you..

Death hastens those who hasten death..

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good.

I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job..

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster..

I don't pull, I just receive..

Your life on the Outside reflects your life on the Inside.

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like a….

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future..

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed..