There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

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.

Insularity plus time yields divergence.

He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. “You’re not crazy. I love you.

The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

Tag opened the door to his knock, and with a look of disappointment, peered behind Wade. "You got someone better coming over?" Wade asked him. "Pizza," Tag said.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.