Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.

...... Love is physiologically a legal battle lovers fight until death".

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person

It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.