I mix them with my brains sir.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.