Brunch is such an odd thing. It was created by fat, lazy people who were too lazy to wake up at a reasonable hour and too fat to wait until the next proper time for dining.

When asked what profession they like least, most people will give the obvious answer: clowns.

This is why it is important never to pick or smell flowers, and to always wear headgear when admiring them.

Nothing says you care like sending someone a kitten.

The toughest part about riding a horse is overcoming the urge to eat it.

Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe.

I'd have been queen of all England, but Massachusetts haunted me and wouldn't let me go.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

Do not attempt too much at once.

There's always a way. Where there's a will there is a way. You have to believe.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

We might have been a free and great people together.