There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very gentle.

You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply.

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.