There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.

Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.