Man will take anything you like, except warning.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'And the other answers, 'Because they could.'That is the only answer there ever is.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.