To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
They don't live here. They live in Heaven. ' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America. ' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.