I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Sometimes the truth hurts because it uncovers the lies people are living

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

I know that you know but you do not know that you really do not know - know yourself. Look within and get to know yourself better.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.