It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.