Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy f

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

Mamma says gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn't.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

I don't have any kids. Well, at least none I know about.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.