Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.

When we appreciate a flower, we are really appreciating the beauty of our amazing minds.

Do one thing for a better world.

But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how you play it.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."