Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.
It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.
There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. " It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
Dude you scare me sometimes! You're all vampire superwoman
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.