The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.