When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.

How apt the poor are to be proud.

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.

The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

I knew her before she was a virgin.

Look ere ye leap.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.