It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy