Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!
There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.
Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat. " She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!
a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.
You don't consume craft beers in great quantities just to get loaded; you consume craft beers because you like the taste of the beer. People are asking for beer based on what they're eating, which is quite a change from the way it was.
The good thing about living like me is everywhere you go is a step up.
Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.