Gawd knows and 'E won't split on a pal.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Dreams are achieved by blood, sweat, tears, and an iron-will!

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

I can't think of anything that people probably wouldn't already have heard of.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.