I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.

Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

The solutions are here. They have always been here. Food does matter!

Just because I'm flaunting it doesn't mean you can stare for hours on end. A polite ogle is appreciated and suitable for a flaunt. Slobbering is not.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

Do it yourself. Keep going. Many people have said these things to me many times and both are good pieces of advice. I like getting on with things.

Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.