Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

Silence is the music of the heart.

Maybe life does suck, Pork Chop, but it beats the hell out of the alternative.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Hannah in the show is enormous, like a Hilary Duff of TV. I hope everyone really likes her. She's a great person!

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

I judge nothing; I just don't do that. Life is too complicated.