No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

Megan, you just single handedly set the women’s movement back twenty years

And what's beyond vastness? It shrinks...

You’re never too old, never too bad, never too late and never too sick to start from the scratch once again.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

This is no place for a girl on fire.