I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Nostalgia is the only acceptable form of sadness.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories....

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

... love is banality to all outsiders.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.