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I don't have any rules when it comes to clothes. I'll wear anything if it fits and looks good. — Lesley Nicol

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.' — Barry Hughart

The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough. — Barry Hughart

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. — Len Wein

...Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane. — Barry Hughart

Mystery and terror are the bulwarks of tyranny. — Barry Hughart

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics. — Barry Hughart

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. — Barry Hughart

Everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows. — Barry Hughart

Nothing on the face of this earth - and I do mean nothing - is half so dangerous as a children's story that happens to be real... — Barry Hughart

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. — Barry Hughart

Ox, what occupation is most closely linked to insanity?'
'Emperor,' I said promptly. — Barry Hughart

Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It's like a goddamned flower! — Barry Hughart

Miser Shen is preparing to spend the night with a goat. — Barry Hughart

The problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop. — Barry Hughart

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned. — Barry Hughart

Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind — Barry Hughart

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. — William Butler Yeats

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them. — Barry Hughart

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth. — Barry Hughart

It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship. — Barry Hughart

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. — Russell Lynes

Immortality is a meaningless word unless invulnerability goes with it. — Barry Hughart

If he sacrifices his legs, he will be admitting to Dr. Traylor that he has won; he will be surrendering to him, to that night in the field with the — Hanya Yanagihara