Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra, ” August said. “You shouldn’t have done this to me.

A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.

We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Duty without love is deplorable.