To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. - Quentin Crisp

My fingers will not type the words "her money became a burden to her" but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant — better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbours.

He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy-meets-girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls.