“None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.”

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

“While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.”

“I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language”

“To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.”

“You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.”