The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.

A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

I’m more concerned about helping humanity through my art