"Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madames, greeting the punters, understanding…"

"Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the l…"

"People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcom…"

"Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said …"

"The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, gray-haired, bent…"

"Anyone can prove anything except that anything’s worth proving."

"On bitter nights in winter the moon called her and she came, when the breath was vapor, and the trees that circled he…"

"Once more the music came. This time it was a dance of caprice, pelting along over the violin-strings, leaping, laughi…"

"How madly she danced that night!"

"I shall leave this farm-house very soon. The people are all right, but they are people, and therefore insufferable."