It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

You know you've reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself.

Think about what’s pleasurable, not just what’s possible.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

After I became confident in Him it didn't matter what anyone said because I was confident in something and someone way bigger than myself.

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.