Death is only a small interruption.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

Every why hath a wherefore.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.