"I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity."

“Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.”

“A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.”

“Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.”

Source : Source: www.roadrunner.travel

“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

“I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me.”

Source : "Paul Reubens clears the air on his '91 arrest". Playboy Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2010.

“Death is what makes life fun.”

“There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.”

“By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.”