Quotes

Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I'd never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.

The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free market that is home to banking - the engine room of capitalism.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.