It is not possible to love and be wise.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

May the Lord give us a new spirit and new heart

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

I've got the Lord on board.

A girl in love will do a good deal.

Im working on just finding a boyfriend right now.

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.