The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

I want to make a splash in the world, and I want to make one with my dry wit. My dry wit is wetter than you’d imagine.

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...

He wouldn’t even understand dry wit if you dropped him off in the desert with a canteen full of sand and a Sandberg poem.

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable

There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.