Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.

Her heart may be cracked, but it is pure. She may be jaded, but she is hopeful. She may be broken, but she is strong. She may be here, but she will leave.

I’ve got to stop looking at you, like you light my world. You’re the dark cloud which brings the rain. You’re the hurricane which destroys my peace. You are not the sun. I am my own light.

My lifesaver has always been the hazel iris of your soul. It never fails. When the world plunges me deep into the darkness, one look from you is all it takes to save me.

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

I write because he needs to know.

You’re nothing more than poison in my veins.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.

If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Be what you would seem to be.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.