I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

I’m a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

Sweet is highly overrated." So is responsible, loyal, and every other adjective you'd find scrawled in my yearbook.

I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.