Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

My writing is how I maintain.

If your eyes and mind can SEE IT, the body does not require external motivation to get motivated.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

If you don't have your game-face on, you're going to go home either to a hospital or to a casket.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.