It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.

No, " I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.

I've no plans to couple with anyone other than my new bride for the next century or so, and it feels as though it's takin' a century to get to it!

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

I should like to understand more about the signs on the shirt you wore earlier. What was it: Eat the tail and suck the head?

The value of a person shouldn't be decided by the judgements of other people. Kindness brings out the best in us all.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It's not a number at all.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving.

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.