Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

We live as if life will never end.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.

Expect me to continue what I've been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.