If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.

You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

I have the worst memory in the world. I can remember some of my dreams, but later that day, i'll forget them.

With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater.

I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.