As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.("The Queen Fantasque")

Ah, ' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'("Queen Fantasque")

The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.

Allo, darlin’. Oi’m so glad to see it’s love at first sight for you, too.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

Without books, I would certainly die.