Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you're ugly.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow. " He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A grin snakes across his face. "I like my women feisty. " He adds, "I like my broken.
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr. , L'exactitude n'est pas la verite. ]
I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts. . . . We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.