Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Life stand still here.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

To love makes one solitary.

Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New"...

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

I talk to the universe all the time.