It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

The man raised his glass, 'To you!'Can't you think of a wittier t

It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

Doing more for others makes your life more abundant.

It does not take God one second to re-write your ugly past .

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Will interrupted. "Henry," he said, "you're on fire. You do know that, don't you?

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.