Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.