My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.

Control your desires as if your life depended on them, then your life will do.

Smile my boy, it’s sunrise

No blue-blooded family, however degenerate, could have produced the idiots one finds in any parliament.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.