I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.

Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.

To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.

Some of my best friends are women, ' I snapped, 'though I certainly wouldn't want my daughter to marry one of them.

I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.

We forgive only that which requires forgiveness. To do otherwise is wasteful of grace.” -- Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't.

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

My first vocation was dance.

One can never study nature too much and too hard