She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.

Roen said, "I can't quit. I have rent, and a cat to support.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Never lie in writing.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.

It is not too late to turn things around.