It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn’t get him anything other than a living.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.