Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

How do YOU know what God meant? Did he whisper into your ear? Did he put the knife in your heart? Did he put a gun in your hand?

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?