A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

If we want to know what we're really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.