Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character

There are no perfect people - except of course my wife's first husband.

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

I am not a god of forgiveness. (Acheron)

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.