No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.

Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together.

Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

Whatever you don't completely reject outright is taken as acceptance by reality.

Either You see GOD in all or You don't see GOD at all.

In MoonlightNoSoft sweet paw on my cheekNoFur curled under my chinJustA sad space left behind - Gray cat gone away. [Ellie's poem]

An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.