Trample not on the ruins of a man.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.

I will say, the one thing Mexico does well is punish prisoners. They do. They're good at that.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.