Our memories are independent of our wills.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Never say more than is necessary.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

I am going to read... but from where to start - is the biggest question in the world.

Sometimes the best vacation is simply closing your eyes for several minutes and recalling wonderful memories.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.