No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Soul appears when we make room for it.

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.

Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.

[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.