We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

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.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

Pain, thou art not an evil

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.