It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Quite definitely a Bingley

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

Some of them are okay, but the popular girls like to pick on my sister, and almost all the guys are gross. I don't know why guys are like that. Do you?

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.