An amiable weakness.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

One can not come back from life.

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.