Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble.""Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.