The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands.

You don’t get a trophy after halftime. We don’t look at the scoreboard until the end of the game.

If you don't believe in the living dead, how do your explain the Golf Channel?

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

The most valuable person is the one who cherishes the value in others.

We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.