But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Be the great person you ought to be.

God is just a name for our wonder.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.