Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

A heart's a heavy burden.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.