Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Brigham Young' they were chanting. It was 'Bring 'em young.

My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I'm a fan of simple and natural products.

An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.