It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

You pick out the big men! I'll make them brave!

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.