It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Writer is a miner

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.