Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

I don't give a damn what people think.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.