Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

You were made for a particular purpose, but you can be anything you want. Anything, including that.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

Then I wondered if everybody has that person that haunts them, the one that got away.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

Let everything that comes your way, help you be new.

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.