The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

If you thirst you may drink.

English literature is a flying fish.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.