"Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it."

“Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.”

“Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.”

“YES. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL. LIKE A SUAVE THING. In fact, from here on, please forward my mail to 1 Suave Hill, Suave Boulevard, Suavieland, Planet of She's-So-Smooth-I-Can't-Believe-She's-Not-Butter.”

“Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.285

“There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.”

“Thou Moon! Sun of the Night, Sister mystic of the Day; Look down, pause in thy flight! Calm me with thy aural ray, Enchanting souls to silver sleep. Look down from out thy airy keep, My fevered senses hypnotize; Shut out the World, whereto Mind flies-- Ambitious Mind, with travail sore; Its fibre rest, its calm restore.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

“As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking...”

“Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.”