One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she had fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.

Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

Every morning I drink a glass of water to be humble and simple like water.

"The whole world loves a lover" is an interesting theory but a very bad legal defense.

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

The soul loves all things beautiful and deep.

Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.

A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.