I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

If you behave as if you are all right, then one day you will be. You have to go through the motions of surviving in order to survive.

We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

If you had told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to be a shoo-in for the Cy Young, I would have been absolutely ecstatic and amazed.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.