The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters.
People who didn’t need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn’t need people.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Never pick yourself a name you can’t scrub the floor in.
Nanny’s philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
It is the fate of all banisters worth sliding down that there is something nasty waiting at the far end.
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few people.
But that was it – hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.