It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

The right to know is the right to live.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.]

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.