For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins

Perhaps there's given up being magic because people didn't believe in it any more.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

Football players win football games.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.

A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.

I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.