Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Whether it’s chocolate or socks, the rule is the same; the darker the better.

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

Very little in this world makes sense.

Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

There is an inner beauty and outer beauty. Both have tremendous influence.

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.

My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.