Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.

But I want to assure you, if it’s your last day on earth, even after 2, 000 years, I strongly suggest you go for the Versace leaf halter dress.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

It's hard to be stuck with people that you love, when nobody trusts

I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.

Women are natural anarchists...

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.