Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.