"You can never be overdressed or overeducated...." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”

“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.”

“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].”

“Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.”

“Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.”

“The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.”

“All bad writers are in love with the epic.”

“Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.”