Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

One's palate is reborn every morning!

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

An only child is never twelve.

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief.

Life is a transition.

Two men look out through the same bars. One sees the mud and the other the stars.

Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

Don't be afraid to let yourself get bored because some of the most amazing things are created through boredom.

I decided to make news, not give it.

Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.

Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive!

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.