Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Men get laid, but women get screwed.