Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

I've never known someone to become more at home in his or her own body, in all of its flaws and its grace, without becoming more compassionate to all of life.

She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.

In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions.

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?

Prions are highly indestructible.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?