But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

One's palate is reborn every morning!

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

An only child is never twelve.

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it...- It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

I love that synergy between being entertainers and having people respond. There’s no greater reward.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.