Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

A child of God, special possession.

Everyone's colored, or you wouldn't be able to see them.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.