I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.Winston Churchill
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.Mark Twain
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.Oscar Wilde
I once belonged to a health club, where it cost me £2,000 a year to amble on a treadmill for half an hour a week and sit and read Grazia in the cooling-off area.Howard Jacobson
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.Tom Stoppard
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.Chuck Palahniuk